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Salamander1978

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From: Aachen, DE

Registered: 2007-10-24

Posts: 30

(SOLVED) x86_64 version of pacman.static fails to fetch core.db.tar.gz

Hello Arch people,

I'm running Debian and successfully installed Arch32 using this wiki page:
    http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ins … her_distro
Everything went smooth.

Now I want to install Arch64.  When I run:
    pacman.static -Sy -r /mnt/arch64
pacman states:
    error: failed retrieving file 'core.db.tar.gz' from ftp.archlinux.org : No address record
    ...
    # the same for all other servers
    ...
    error: failed to synchronize core: No address record
    error: failed to synchronize any databases

Hints anyone?

Salamander

Last edited by Salamander1978 (2007-10-24 19:58:15)

Salamander1978

Member

From: Aachen, DE

Registered: 2007-10-24

Posts: 30

Re: (SOLVED) x86_64 version of pacman.static fails to fetch core.db.tar.gz

OK, I found a workaround.

I copied x86_64 config files
    pacman-3.0.6-1-x86_64.pkg/etc/pacman.conf
    pacman-3.0.6-1-x86_64.pkg/etc/pacman.d/*
to my host
    /etc/pacman.conf
    /etc/pacman.d/*
and ran the x86 pacman binary
    ./pacman-3.0.6-1-i686.pkg/usr/bin/pacman.static -Sy -r /mnt/arch64

This works! 

Another problem was that the kernel26.img installed via chroot wasn't able to find its root partition (/dev/sdb2 in this case).  The solution was to start with kernel26-fallback.img and to reinstall the kernel.

Crazy problems, if I find time I'll spend some to do a bug report.

Salamander

Salamander1978

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From: Aachen, DE

Registered: 2007-10-24

Posts: 30

Re: (SOLVED) x86_64 version of pacman.static fails to fetch core.db.tar.gz

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8408